Quotes About Error

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to use youth as scapegoats for the sins of their elders.

Only smart people can make silly mistakes.

Underneath every simple, obvious story about 'human error,' there is a deeper, more complex story about the organization.

But the point of a 'human error' investigation is to understand why people's assessments and actions made sense at the time, given their context, and without knowledge of outcome, not to point out what they should have done instead.

Tomorrow's accident, which will be rare but no doubt even more disastrous, will be an accident where the regulations were in place to prevent the problem, or perhaps where no-one actually made an identifiable error and no system truly broke down but all the components had been weakened by erosion: the degree of variation within the operating conditions will one day prove enough to exceed the tolerable linkage thresholds.